Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Minnesota-Morris, USA is co-editor of the Advances in Gender Research series. She is also a past president of the North Central Sociological Association and Sociologists for Women in Society, a recipient of the Harriet Martineau Sociological Society Award and chair of the SWS subcommittee on CEDAW. Marcia Texler Segal, Professor of Sociology and Dean for Research Emerita, Indiana University Southeast, USA is co-editor of the Advances in Gender Research series and of Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class: Readings for a Changing Landscape. Past president of the North Central Sociological Association, she chairs the American Sociological Association Retirement Network. Kristy Kelly, PhD, is a sociologist specializing in policy and politics, transnational feminisms and gender mainstreaming in Southeast Asia. She is jointly affiliated with the School of Education at Drexel University and Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. She is co-president of the Society of Gender Professionals.

In the first of two volumes linking the study of gender with the praxis of gender, sociologists focus on the way in which attempting to implement social change is gendered. In sections on education, training, and practice, they consider such topics as gender and education at Makerere University in Uganda, implementing gender analysis in nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions: an experience from Cambodia, marginalized mothers contesting individualization through grassroots community organizing, and being a feminist applied sociologist in a non-profit testing and research organization: encouraging fairness in measurement and management practices.

• Introduction: Gender and Practice: Introduction to Insights from the Field; Marcia Texler Segal, Kristy Kelly & Vasilikie Demos PART I: EDUCATION 1. Feminist Leadership in The Academy: Exploring Everyday Praxis; Kris De Welde, Marjukka Ollilainen & Catherine Richards Solomon 2. Teaching and Learning Gender and Its Practices in the School of Education, Makerere University, Uganda; Alice Merab Kagoda 3. Gender Audit as Research Method for Organizational Learning and Change in Higher Education; A.S. Cohen Miller and Jenifer L. Lewis 4. Why be Different? Teaching, Development and Gendered Diversity; Edwin S. Segal PART II: TRAINING 5. "Don’t do your gender on me!" Gender Mainstreaming and the Politics of Training in Vietnam; Kristy Kelly6. Transforming Data into Action: Implementing Gender Analyses in Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Interventions: An Experience from Cambodia; Ramona Ridolfi, Ame Stormer & Gary Mundy 7. "Power in Numbers": Marginalized Mothers Contesting Individualization through Grassroots Community Organizing; Jennifer E. Cossyleon PART III: PRACTICE 8. Treating Beyond Ailment: Fistula and Gender Vulnerabilities in Remote Tanzania; Bankole Allibay 9. The Benefits of Long-Term Treatment for Adult Victims of Sex Trafficking; Jessica M. Grosholz, Sandra S. Stone, Alexandra M. Fleck and Fawn T. Ngo 10. Analyzing the Importance of Funding for Gender Focused Empowerment Programs; Soma Chaudhuri & Merry Morash 11. Restructuring Women's Leadership in Climate Solutions: Analyzing The W+TM Standard; Peggy Spitzer Christoff & Jamie M. Sommer 12. Being a Feminist Applied Sociologist in a Nonprofit Testing & Research Organization: Encouraging Fairness in Measurement and Management Practices; Barbara Kirsh